on survivor.

i know i haven't written much about my beloved survivor this season, and i promise it's not because i'm bitter that i didn't make the cut.

well, it's a little bit because i'm bitter.

but anyway. this week's "shocking" tribe mix-up never felt like a good idea, ESPECIALLY when it came to keeping some of my favorite players (james, aaron, etc.) alive. this was confirmed when dear, sweet Aaron "got Nick'd" this week.

and in case you didn't watch big brother 8 OR in case you did, but forgot, the getting rid of Nick move did not end well for anyone who thought it might.

i can only hope PG's tribal life is swiftly cut short the same way, say, Dustin's was, and i can only hope that she 100% DOES NOT SEE IT COMING. cocky b*tch.

*getting "nick'd" refers to the premature ousting of the cute, nice, overly competitive threat in the game WAY before said person deserves to go.

whatever, i'm just doing this for you.

Obviously, I didn’t watch EVERY SINGLE season premiere that aired this week. I’m an extremely busy and cultured lady and I don’t have time to sit around and watch TV all the damn day long.

I mean, seriously.

However, somehow, I did manage to watch 7 season premieres and two season finales... so you can do the math about how busy my social calendar was this week.

Shut up.


OK, so here’s my VERY topline summary/report on what I saw.

Finales

Big Brother 8: evel dick blahblahblahh eh. B-
Last Comic Standing. Double eh. C+

Premieres

Prison Break.
SUPER confused, which translates to SUPER intrigued, which translates to GOOD. I give it a B+. This grade will drop considerably if Bellick keeps running around sans pants. Um, vomit.

K-Ville.
I can’t say I was able to watch more than 3.3 minutes of this. The word “boring” comes to mind. Sorry dudes. C-

Beauty & The Geek.
It’s been awhile since I almost hurt myself laughing. The first half of the premiere was whatever, lame. But the second half was mostly: brilliance in motion. So great, this show. It will fill the giant void in my tiny heart that Pick-up Artist will leave. And please believe this will be a huge, gaping hole. However, the "surprise gender" twist? LAME in your face.

Gossip Girl.
Yeah, so. I felt naughty watching it, which means it will be relegated to being my guilty pleasure that I tivo in the bedroom only so that I can watch while I “clean my room” on Saturdays after my long training runs. Roughly, in the same category as The Hills, but surprisingly better and the music is ta die fer. A-

American’s Next Top Model.
The first episode is always exposition and blahblahblah screaming over tyra boring more tyra too much exposition blah. So it’s nor really fair to truly grade this, but I will be watching, anyway, because I’m a ANTM whore, despite the fact that I actually loathe tyra’s stupid self-righteous face. B

Kid Nation.
Just when I thought I had enough reasons to keep babies out of my life, here comes another reason. KIDS! Could they BE any more obtuse? Could they BE any more annoying? OK, granted, some are totally adorable and I want to squish their faces off. But let’s be honest. Those are the exception to the rule. I will be definitely be tuning in next week to find out if they kill a chicken or not, because, truly, I am THAT morbid. But I can’t imagine this one will leave a lasting impression on my HIGHLY cultured and refined taste menu. B-

Survivor.
MAYBE I was bitter when it started because I was like OMG why is there ANOTHER mullet-head and no ME*? I could have done this show SO MUCH BETTER than effing CHICKEN or stupid whatever-her-face is. But once I got over myself (I know, right? About time!) I fell in like with: james and aaron and, as always, I do believe I am in it for the long haul. Loves this show. Can’t help mahself. A


Dear Brain Cells,

Come back to me. I’m truly and deeply sorry for drowning you with sweet alcohols and too much soul-draining teevee.

Love you long time,
Rubes



*if you are a new reader, please review this post to read about my survivor audition experience. obvsly, i didn't make it....

skip this entry.

SURVIVOR FINALE!!



28 minutes in I’ve decided to do a real time blog/// i suggest you skip it.



To recap: yau has just won the 2nd to last immunity and now everyone is trying to decide who deserves to be in the final four.

Boo and dreamz are vying for position, it’s tricky because my instinct is to vote out dreamz, but we all believe that he’s going to be true to the deal if he makes it to the next round. boo will likely be easier to beat in the remaining immunity, but who knows.

Dreamz and boo are negotiating in a very diplomatic and calm manner at tribal council Everyone is way honest, right? Much more so than I can ever remember. This is a good solid group.

Time to vote.

My gut is that boo is gone…

Is anyone going to play the immunity idol?

Yeah of course earl is, why wouldn’t he?

And the votes…. Boo. Dreamz. Boo. BOO is gone.

Good game, boo.

THE FINAL FOUR: yau, dreamz, earl & cassandra. cassandra!??!?!


Commercial Break: PIRATE MASTER: may 31st. I’m in.


Earl and yau are waxing nostalgic and then it’s time for the “remember the survivors who no one would otherwise remember” moment.

Papa smurf. Aw. I liked him and his sweet Minnesota self.
Rocky! So glad you left when you did. gah.
Lisi. Unghgha.
Michelle. Loved her. Sweet girl.
Mookie. A few crayons short of a full box.
Stacey “how the hell did she last so long?”

And now they all burn. Farewell other 15 survivors! We hardly knew ye.


A “pirates” promo – this time for the movie. Hmm. Two different pirate promos. Coincidence? Hee.



Final immunity!!!!


My money is, as usual, on yau. But I think dreamz is going to win it and he’s going to have to make that hard choice. I’m still kind of amazed with yau’s strategy to get the immunity from dreamz….


And the challenge is officially underway.


Probst is there to plant some key thoughts, per usual. Gotta love probst.

Angle is increased.

Earl moves out of the way of the water flow. Good technique, earl.

Angle is increased.

Cassandra, predictably, struggles the most so far. Earl and dreamz are chillin.

Angle is increased.

Cassandra’s toast.

Now dreamz struggles. Yau seems to have found his zen.

2o minutes in . new angle. 55 degrees.

This is where we separate the men from the, well, other men.

Earl’s toast.


YAU V. DREAMZ.


And yau’s in the water.

And dreamz wins the last immunity.



YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.

Well, you could. But moving on.

As jeff says, it’s going to be “an interesting afternoon,” indeed.


Hey did you know that pirate master premieres on may 31st? well, now ya do.

Suddenly, I want them to vote Cassandra out. Real bad. She least deserves to be there.

Yau pets the immunity necklace. Aw.


When dreamz says he’s good with 4th place, I don’t believe him for one hot second.

I’m nervous.


Presently, in my mind, I would like the final four to go down like this: cassandra is gone, then it comes down to dreamz, yau and earl. It can’t actually happen the way I want it can it? Can it?


TRIBAL COUNCIL….

WHAT’S DREAMZ GONNA DO???

HE DECIDES TO KEEP IT.


HOLY SHIT!!! I’M A LITTLE BIT IN SHOCK.


If yau’s gone I’m going to have to pause a moment and pour one out.



SO SHADY.



‘cuse me for a moment.




WHY THE EFF IS CASSANDRA STILL THERE?


I’m a little depressed.


Still in shock….


Can’t believe earl did that though. Shady!!!!

Me sad.


Oh the final three get a picnic. Great enjoy. Suckasses.


And now the inevitable burning of the stuff moment.


Blahblah


And now, final tribal. Opening statements? 100% weak across the board. Unless convincing me NONE of you deserves it was your goal. I know I know, I need to get over it.


If I had to choose? EARL all the way.

Go, earl.

Eh.

HIGH STAKES. HIGH ADVENTURE. PIRATE MASTER. PREMIERES MAY 31st.


Heh.


One of the best final tribal councils commences ever. And by “best” I mean “most awkwardly awesome.”


obviously, earl has it in the bag, right?



and i'm right.


i'm still sore about yau not being in the final four. what a crock.


*runs off to pout some more*

more later....maybe.

whatever.

survivorling.

so here’s what I’m loving about survivor presently.

#1. it’s truly anyone’s game right now. yau is playing with a shrewdness that excites and makes me nervous all at the same time. Boo is dominating the immunity and reward challenges. Just when I think dreamz is totally clueless, he starts talking some mad game that makes me think otherwise. Even though it never works out in dreamz favor, at least he tries. And then earl, well, he’s pretty much the man. Is all. And well, then there’s Cassandra. Necessary, but not really anything to write home about.

#2. yau broke the car curse, maybe. First time anyone has ever given away the car prize, and the first time anyone has ever sent themselves to exile. Yau just doesn’t play by the rules, yo. But I think he knew that by winning the truck he would be essentially sealing his fate (because no one that has ever won the car/truck has ever won the $$mil$$) so he played that brilliantly.

#3. yau and earl. Great team. Brilliant.

I can’t believe the season finale is already here. I am totally loving the final five, boo was definitely a dark horse and Cassandra has been totally flying under the radar, but I think everyone deserves to be there. Sunday can’t get here fast enough.


ps. i'm still sad I’m not going to be on this show next season. Bummed.
pps. did someone get voted off tonight? i can't remember.

china!

survivor - china

i guess i won't be going to china, then, seeing as i'm not going to be on survivor 15.

you stink!

well it’s no secret that i think mookie is a few cards short of a full deck. but i guess i also underestimated the relative ignorance of dreamz. or is it brilliance? i really can’t tell. however, the “four horsemen” might have to go down as simply the worst alliance EVER.

in the aftermath of tribal council, mookie is yelling at dreamz for “screwing them both.” but if i remember correctly, it was mookie who voted against the alliance, right? so i get completely lost in his logic. um...huh?

the reward challenge reveals that yau is universally loved, that no one would invite boo over for dinner, and that everyone hates stacy and thinks she smells bad. and also? they never want to see her again after they leave the island. awesome.

cassandra wins by answering every single question correctly, so she takes dreamz, boo and yau on a magical mystery yacht ride with her and sends MOOKIE to exile (hee). earl? gets to stay home and baby-sit the remaining horsemen, apparently. poor earl.

yau and cassandra work on luring dreamz and boo to the dark side, but can see “in their eyes” that they aren’t 100% in. and this is: NOTED. with a capital N. back at camp, dreamz reveals to NON-four horsemen that mookie is going to slip alex the immunity idol so they should counter act this measure by voting for mookie. since dreamz is not so much “good” in the “manipulation department,” as he walks away stacy suggests they counter act the counter action and vote EDGARDO. it seems brilliant, but yet i wonder how stacy all of a sudden became “smart” and “trustworthy.” i missed the part how they went from hating her to having her in their alliance. hm.

anyway, the plan actually works brilliantly and edgardo is COMPLETELY shocked, alex is severely saddened (and now? IDOL-LESS) and mookie looks and feels dumber than ever, if that’s even possible. sorry fellas. rocky and michelle are loving it on the sidelines, however. hee.

oh, and i forgot to mention that OF COURSE yau man wins the endurance challenge. i mean, come on, it’s YAU. (pay up, aaron.)

next week: dreamz attempts to back pedal. yau’s idol is compromised. alex still mistakenly thinks he is running this game. love this show.

merge dynamics

**survivor recap**

the merge episode is always one of the best of the season. this season’s merger dynamics were undoubtedly some of the best ever, considering two immunity idols are in play instead of just one.

i love the dramatic irony in this situation because we know so much that the contestants don’t know. for example, as far as the old moto is concerned, lisi was the only person on ravu who could have feasibly known about and found the idol. they have no idea that she was retarded enough to share the clues or that the tribe members on ravu were retarded enough to let THREE people in on the secret location or that OF ALL THE PEOPLE, mookie finds and thusly gets control of said immunity idol. (that is three strikes for ravu, if you’re keeping track.) seriously, MOOKIE? anyway.

the old ravu has no idea, obviously, that yau man has the idol and that he and earl are in a seemingly air-tight alliance. ravu’s resident idiot is retarded enough to bring dreamz into their alliance by REVEALING that he has the idol, much to the chagrin of ed & alex. MOOKIE! GAH!!! but ed & alex aren’t winning any brilliance contests themselves as they propose to bring stacey into the alliance, which is obviously NOT going to go over well with dreamz. nor mookie, for that matter. but the effects of this remain to be seen.

by the way – this would also have to go in the books as the worst merger celebration EVER, as the contestants soon learn that they are returning to a gutted moto island and NO FEAST awaits their newly formed tribe. so. sad.

so now that we’re all thoroughly confused, it’s time for an immunity challenge. except, as always, nothing is at it seems. the tribe is split in two, and it is revealed that only the losing sub-tribe will be going to council. also? they won’t get to talk to anyone on the other sub-tribe NOR amongst themselves to strategize. d’oh!

so the tribe with yau and earl wins, naturally (because they rock my face off) which means the tribe with dreamz, mookie, alex, michelle and stacey is off to fend for their lives.

this is where it gets dicey. alex actually plays jeff brilliantly by making it totally obvious and clear who he is going to vote for. mookie doesn’t get the memo (i have a feeling most of mookie’s life is this way) and ends up being the only “horseman” to vote against the alliance. *sigh*

anyway, sadly, my good friend michelle is sent packing which will definitely compromise my earl/yau alliance and keep me on the edge of my seat in the upcoming eps. and since that’s why i love this game... well, then, yay!

next week – mookie gets called out for the dumbass he is. F*CKING MOOKIE! ahh. in other news, dreamz is totally growing on me. who woulda thunk it!?

d.e.l.i.r.

survivor rocks.

it just does. i’m really sad that i’m not going to be on it next season. i would have kicked some major ass, you know? not to brag, but i would have. it’s totally easy to say that now that i know i’m not going to be cast (but whatever).

there’s something pretty magical about watching yau and earl these days. it conjurs up feelings of last season’s yul/ozzy razzle/dazzle. almost, but not quite. no one PHYSICALLY played the game like ozzy, in my opinion. and also? no one has had better hair. it’s important to have good hair in this game. and no one, NO ONE is as ripped as YUL. 'nuff said.

anyway, earl OWNED the reward/dance competition whilst yau freaking OWNED the immunity/bullseye challenge. i’m not going to say i was actually clapping and raising the roof while i watched, but, um, i was clapping and (maybe a little bit) raising the roof.

this season is almost going too well at this point. for instance: last week i was like, i’d love to see rocky shut the eff up. suddenly? rocky’s toast. this week i was like, if lisi leaves in a cloud of dust, i’ll eat this hot tamale off the floor. consider that hot tamale: eaten. mmmm hot tamales.

so anyway, i sometimes have magical moments during survivor where i’m like wow, it just really doesn’t get much better than this, does it? and i turn to whomever is in the room with me with a sh*t-eating grin on my face and i say as such and then realize shortly thereafter: i’m being ridiculous. but!? it doesn’t matter. because at THAT moment? it doesn’t get any better than that. it just doesn’t get any better.

speaking of those moments, i had that during the amazing race a week ago when i realized that the midget/cousin team was kicking some SEVERE ass and it was such a mind-blowing coup that i honestly sat there, slack-jawed for more than twenty minutes pondering the awesomeness of it all while aaron had to clean my drool up off the floor. i was THAT in awe of the awesomeness.

hey! i’m going to start a new saying for myself.

"i put the awe in awesomeness."


don’t be jealous.

it’s at this point that i realize the quantity of wine that i’ve had divided by the amount of food i’ve had multiplied by the idea that tomorrow morning i’m off to ski for the first time in 16 years has made me DELIRIOUS. and, as such, i’m making like a baby and heading the eff out.

TEAM EARL/YAU FOREVER.

I got five on it

in lieu of writing any in-depth recaps of the numerous awesome shows i watched over the past week, i'm just going to give you my favorite moments...

1. whitney from the hills falls down the stairs on a live TV modeling segment (see it here)

2. michelle falls off a perch during a reward challenge on survivor ( here it is)

3. during a flashback on lost, they show that guy getting sucked into the plane's engine again. hilar.



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4. natasha's photo shoot on america's next top model was pretty dope

5. yau man finds the immunity idol, and then creates a faux one and buries the fake to fool the others. possibly one of the best sequences i've ever seen on survivor. ever. i effing loves me some YAU!

and there ya go. top five brought to you by MOI, inc.

on paper, looks good.

** Survivor Recap**






the thing i most love about survivor is that just when you think you kinda have it all figured out and you think it’s going to get semi-predictable, they up and change the whole crazy game on you. and last night was that moment.

the “reward challenge” turns out, is “drop your buffs” time with ed & earl getting the tribe-selector-honors. ed’s tribe ends up being 100% beef and consists of all you *think* you ever wanted in a tribe: ed, alex, rocky, dreamz and mookie. oh. and anthony. i think rocky says it best when he observes that “on paper, we’re like a superpower. i ain’t gonna lie, we look pretty good.” or something to that effect. and! they’re modest too.

ok so, that leaves earl, boo, stacy, cassandra, michelle and yau man on the other tribe. guess who didn’t get picked? yep that’s right. everyone’s favorite mullet-face-‘vivor-tard, LISI. she’s so dumb, she’s almost brilliant. she essentially thinks because she didn’t get picked, she is going home, and reveals that she would be cool with that.. but then jeff informs her she’s going to exile and will still be playing the game (dumbass) and she’s all awwww shit. anyway, jeff is like dude, go to exile and get your stupid head on straight. i love it when probst unleashes the sass.

now, it’s tribe buff selection time. ed selects orange, so the sausage fest is the new ravu. d’oh. moto island is still phat island, which then means that yau man, michelle and earl are now going to get a taste of the goooood life while alex, ed & deamz are now going to be slumming on ghetto island. hee. so juicy i can hardly stand it.

back at ravu, life is certainly, um, weird. anthony’s deep-seeded aversion to removing his shirt around Men is revealed, and you can’t help but feel super sorry for him as he waxes nostalgic about his Life as a Nerd. meanwhile, all the Men go off to grunt, hunt and fish leaving anthony to tend to the whining, cooking and cleaning. then the editing is so weird and eerie that i feel like it’s going to turn into a Lord of the Flies situation... but no, it’s just some scheming and suddenly, with the help of the Most Manliest Men (Ed & Alex) FISH ARE CAUGHT and FOOD IS SERVED. rocky’s face starts looking EXACTLY like one of the fish they caught and i start to get confused as to whether rocky is talking or a fish. either way, it’s a blowhard.

so..... ... there is a huge build-up about how awesome ravu is now and how they are sooo going to kick major ass which can only lead to one result: they lose the immunity challenge. in a very anti-climactic tribal council, anthony gets the boot, but at least they had us thinking for one split second that it might be rocky. anyway, i don’t think anyone but anthony cares about anthony leaving, but the moral of the story is: just because you’re a man it does not mean you are automatically awesome. isn’t that the moral? i don’t know. i remember laughing a LOT during this episode but i was also pretty high on thai curry. so there you go.

rocks for brains.

**survivor recap**





so i watched survivor after attending two happy hours (both on the west side!), so if i’m a little fuzzy on the details, blame it on captain chardonnay and sargeant tiredhead.


ravu is not looking good at all. even though they managed to avoid tribal council last week, they are still really weak and tired and hungry. rocky has a wide-eyed look on his face at all times, and i’m half-expecting him at any moment to drop down on all fours and start chewing on sticks and howling at the moon. yau man confides in his man, earl, that he has a solid list of clues and maybe they can callaborate to get this damn idol out of the sleeping area? so earl hooks a little brother up by taking the tribe on a wild goose chase for um? scenic views of the island? but not actual food? slick, earl, slick.

but, alas, the yauster is muy unsuccessful and the hidden idol remains true to its name. um, hidden. the yauster. does anyone else think i’m hilarious besides myself?

there was some montage about how rita and michelle like to talk about lip gloss or something and it bores the ever living shit out of the guys. and then there’s tree mail and its a bunch of pictures of things they may NEED and things they may WANT. rocky tries to convince the tribe that they should get the delicious chocolate cake, instead of you know, fishing gear or something. rocky’s losing his mind, right?

the reward challenge involves a really really sad sumo match where ravu’s lack of energy is actually painful. the only ravu tribe member to actually win one of the matches was effing YAU MAN, people. YAU MAN. the greatest part of that (besides how unassumingly awesome yau man can be in weird moments) is that he beats stacy. which was good. because, as it turns out? she’s a total bitchface. which we learn back at moto while they enjoy the fruits of yet another win. also a bitchface? lisi. but we already knew that one. alex & edgar start to think about actual strategy instead of stuffing their faces for once, and decide to think a little into the future about what might actually happen in a merger if they keep alienating dreamz and cassandra. who, incidentally, are already planning to flip upon a merge. SHOCKING.

moto wins the challenge (again, shocker) and so ravu is left to decide who goes and they actually surprise me by getting rid of rita instead or worthless anthony. they are all crazy.

the suck continues. or does it?

** survivor recap **

bad news, my friends. papa smurf cannot recover from what looks like a super severe case of the spins, and it's bon voyage for him. everyone seems to feel pretty bad, except lisi who views him as a giant baby that she doesn't want to have to babysit. aw, isn't she (and her hot red mullet) sweet? i'm a little confused as to what she brings to this super solid alliance of five on moto, because as far as i can tell, she's a whiny, jealous heartless mulletface. but that's just me. oh, and she sucks at the challenges too. but hey, maybe she's good at massages. nope, nope not that either. *scratches head*

ok, so ravu cannot pull its collectives head(s) out of its ass(es) enough to win a challenge. rocky goes on a slight rampage after the reward challenge which would have actually been really funny if i didn't think he was being serious about knowing, like, 40 homeless people that weigh 40 pounds more than him. or something like that. he also makes anthony cry, which, i have to admit, was pretty funny. in other news, mookie is totally hungry.

so instead of moping around, rocky decides to lighten the mood a bit by gettin' nekkid (AWKWARD) and then, after gentle coersion from the tribe, decides to get dressed in a bikini top compelete with coconut boobs. and he actually looks pretty hot. and then, shows up at the immunity challenge in drag. maybe rocky isn't the smartest survivor ever, but he sure knows how party. (that's what she said)

so anyway, it looked really promising for a moment for ravu during the immunity challenge, but then i guess i'm going to blame anthony's inability to do anything right for the ultimate loss. HOWEVER... a crazy twist in the game forces moto to decide between their camp o' luxury and immunity and camp o' luxury *gasp* WINS. this, just after alex was complaining about how gary leaving makes the number(s) game almost equal. i'm not sure i disagree with the idea of not giving up the luxury, but i'm not going to say this was a "smart" move. especially because they end up voting out one of their stronger tribe members (WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE GOOD AT MASSAGES AND FLIRTING) and keep one of their more worthless, albeit sweet, ones.

so even though ravu loses, they still kinda win. hey, that's neat. oh yeah, and up next, watch out for slippery little yau man to find the idol.... just sayin.

watch out for boo

** survivor recap **

maybe it was because i decided to slam a diet rockstar and run 6.8 miles before watching survivor tonight, but honestly, i couldn't stop laughing any time "boo" showed up on screen. is this guy for real? he's awesome. he's like a real life SNL skit. i can't wait to see what he's going to get into next! hilar!

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so then i started to kinda feel bad about making mad fun of dreamz last week right around the time he started seriously freaking out over "how much food they had" as compared to what's in his fridge at home. that's definitely sad, dreamz. you're still annoying in a "not so bright" kind of way, but i do hope this show brings you more positivity, you know, in the Game of Life.



anyway, i started to come down off my post-run/rockstar buzz somewhere around the time when sylvia's face kept popping on screen with a riduclous use of the buff as a head ornament. i don't mean to be rude, but is she half-retarded?



speaking of half-retarded.... rocky? i thought you had some brains in that sleepy-eyed noggin of yours. getting rid of erica because she is a "threat" this early in the game is not a smart move, dude. not smart. same for you, MOOKIE.






oh, and i really enjoyed earl's sea snake analysis. "snakes are misunderstood. we have an understanding now." damn straight, earl. damn straight.

sea snakes in yo face!!

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well, first of all, there’s this unfortunate piece of new i uncovered today (thanks to eddie)

survivor fiji: only one cast member applied while the rest was recruited


um.

really?

damn.

anyway! moving on. *really, i am*


my initial reaction to the new season of survivor? man, it would have been cool to be on this island. I know it’s not typical for survivor to provide such a sweet set-up, but seriously how COOL is the shelter on “awesome” aka moto island? (super)

i wonder if the winning team will always get to be on awesome island, or if moto is always going to be there.... hmm. *ponders*

so, the early spotlight was on rocky (the token bartender/bostonian), dreamz (obnoxious former homeless man) and yau man (old brillian asian dude) . the sorta kinda typical survivor archetypes. i'm definitely enjoying rocky & yau man so far, but dreamz... yeah, not so much.

exile island is creepy and crawly and most definitely not going to be a fun place to spend anytime. and what's up with the idol being hidden in camp? and which camp? whhhhaaaaat?

not surprised to see jessica go right away, but as aaron put it "cute girl gone first? there go the ratings."

overall, i'm giving this episode a solid A-. i woulda given it an A but i'm still irritated that ONLY ONE PERSON ACTUALLY APPLIED AND THE REST WERE RECRUITED. there goes my survivor fantasy.

grrr.